John Hawkins has the top 10 reasons. I’ll ignore the fact that I don’t do this for a living (or even any compensation whatsoever; no ads here) and see which ones I definitely fail on a routine basis (do note I’m not talking about Shoebox or the guest-bloggers):
1) They’re just not very good. Damn if John didn’t nail me. Most days, I’ll be the first one to tell you I suck.
2) They don’t cover interesting material. That speaks to the fact that I’m a boring person.
5) They don’t promote their work. That’s a big-ass failing of mine. I almost never send out promotional e-mails, prefering to let the trackbacks do the talking. I just don’t have that huge an ego.
6) They’re not consistent enough. They take days off. Oh, you mean like the break I took between the 28th and the 4th? Somehow, I got Shoebox as a co-blogger to take the pressure off.
I fail most of the rest of them as well. Oh well; it’s a good thing I don’t have a huge ego.
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Well at least for my part….we ride in the same boat don’t we? And as for not being good…well, at least it keeps you from cleaning grey matter off the cabinets! Beyond that, who cares about good!
I was never aware that I was supposed to blog for any other reason than that I wanted to write my opinions about things. I never expected to have as many visitors as I now have. I never aspired to be Vox Day or any other highly visited blog. Besides, it keeps the mind active.
You two nailed why I blog. It goes back to the difference between the average conservative blogger and the average liberal blogger that Owen pointed out a couple years ago (I’m too lazy to go through the archives to find exactly when he said it); we blog because we want to vent. If others like it, so much the better.
Here’s That Link Right Back At Ya…
Yesterday, more than a few blogs linked to my Top 10 reasons bloggers don’t succeed post. Since I encouraged bloggers to link out to other blogs in the article, I thought I should prove that piece of advice works by……